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Old March 11th, 2005, 01:41 PM
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Dual Display

I am having a few problems with hooking up a dual display from a nvidia 420 laptop to a tv. I can ge tthe backround to work, with none of the icons and junk, but thats all i can get. Hoster doesnt show up or anything.

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Old March 11th, 2005, 01:44 PM
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Re: Dual Display

did you update the video card drivers ?
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Old March 11th, 2005, 02:11 PM
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Re: Dual Display

Have you tried playing a track?

The first time you play, the singer's screen may be on the pc. Just click and drag it over to the remote tv, and double click on it to lock it in place.

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Old March 11th, 2005, 02:21 PM
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Re: Dual Display

Do you really want your icons, Hoster, etc. to appear on the second display? That's usually the singer's display. If you have it set to display the exact same thing as your monitor (the primary display), you won't be able to add new singers/songs to your playlist while a singer is singing (they would see your open application, what you're entering, etc. and the song lyrics would just be one small piece of the screen). With it set the way you currently have it (second display only showing your desktop background - no icons), the singer will see only the song lyrics displayed (preferably full-screen), while your display will continue to show your icons, open applications, etc. and you can do whatever you need to do on the computer without disturbing what the singer sees.
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Old March 12th, 2005, 12:08 PM
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Re: Dual Display

Hi everybody, just wanted to let everyone know, we have our dual display working now. We had the NVIDIA card set for digital. Changed the setting to analog. Also (in properties) set to horizontal span (This stretches the desktop over BOTH monitors, but locks the icons and the taskbar to the primary display, eliminating the problems in the above post). This works as long as you do not change anything when you start up/shut down the computer, however, if you turn the computer on without the TV hooked up, it will cause it to go back to single display mode and require you to reset the settings. The easiest way I found to change this was to create 2 display profiles. These are accessed by right clicking the desktop, clicking nView properties, then the Profiles tab at the top. Make sure the box to save display settings is checked. Then, create a profile in Single Display mode, save this one as default or single, it doesn't really matter(You must save after each step, or you will lose your changes). Then, create a new display profile, named dual display. Make sure the box to save settings is still checked, then change the monitor set up to dual display.(Read above).Again, save this profile. I then went back and set up hotkeys, CTRL+ALT+S for single display mode, CTRL+ALT+D for Dual Display mode.


NOTE: After you are done using dual display mode, ALWAYS go back into single display before shutting the computer off. After you plug the TV in, load the dual display mode and you should be good to go.

Any questions, drop a line here and I will do my best to answer them.

Thanks!

PS-My 17 year old kid figured this out. He's a genius.
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Old March 14th, 2005, 11:27 AM
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Re: Dual Display

Most of the Time the Manuals, that come with the Laptops will tell you how to set this up. I know that NVIDIA is much harder to get to work than ATI.
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Old March 14th, 2005, 01:12 PM
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Hi Bryan, Did my first hoster show last night. I don't have my new songbooks printed yet, as I am still adding tracks. Even with using the search features and brand modes, the show was a great success. All I can say is WOW, what a great product. I did a lot of research into competing software before purchasing mtu products. I made the right choice. Thanks for everything you folks do!
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